Allen v. Workman

ORDER DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY

Garry Thomas Allen, an Oklahoma state prisoner sentenced to death, seeks a stay of execution and a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal the district court’s order denying his habeas petition, which challenges his competency to be executed under Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930, 127 S.Ct. 2842, 168 L.Ed.2d 662 (2007), and Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399, 106 S.Ct. 2595, 91 L.Ed.2d 335 (1986). Specifically, he contends that Oklahoma’s procedure for determining a defendant’s competency to be executed1 “unconstitutionally places an inmate’s…